Bag-holder.



F. AF. suuTER. BAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.8, |916.

Patented Jan. 1919.

FRANK F. SUTER, 0F WEST UNITY, OHIO.

:BAG-HOLDER.

Leemans.

Specification of Letters' Patent.

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' Application led February 1,916. Serial No. 77,108.

To all whom t may concern:

' Be it known that l, FRANK lE`. SU'rnR, a citizen of the United States, -residing at West Unity, in the county of Williams and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders; and ll do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the-art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention is a bag holder adapted more particularly for use in connection with threshing machines, although it may be used in various other lines of work.

rllhe purpose of this invention is to provide simple efficient and economical means which can be readily mounted and to which may be secured a bag or other receptacle while such receptacle is being filled through a discharge pipe of the chute.

@ther advantages and purposes of the invention will become apparent from the following detail description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

While a preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the structure therein disclosed is for the puroses of illustration, and not as defining the imits of the invention.

ln the drawings lFigure 1 is a front elevation disclosing a ba in position on one of the terminal pipes.

ig. 2 is a sectional view disclosing the means to direct the material through one of the pipes. ,t

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation showing means to support the chute; and

lifig. 4 is a detail view of the material directing device.

Fig. 5 is a detail view of the clamping band for holding the bag on the terminal pipe.

Referring more particularly to the embodiment of the invention disclosed in the drawings, the chute is shown as a cylindrical preferably flared at the mouth 3 as illus trated in lFig. 1, so that the diameter of the mouth of the terminal is greater than the diameter at the neck 4l thereof.

walls of thechute at the neck 4. One of the pinions 6 may be provided with a handle 7 whereby the deflector can be rotated within the chute to direct 'the material to one or the other of the pipes 2.

UnefOrm of bag holder is illustrated at 8 in the drawings, wherein a band is disclosed as encircling the pipe 2, the diameter of the band when in its rest position being less than the diameter of the mouth 3 of the pipe 2, but of a sufficient diameter to loosely slide upon the upper portion of the pipe 2. This band 8 may be of any suitable material, such as resilient metal, and is cut at one portion thereof to provide expanding ends 9. These ends are preferably connected by a yoke or arch 10,- which may be of suitable material and if desired, may be of resilient material.` rlFhe `yoke 10 forms suitable stiffening means for the band inpreventing the ends 9 from expanding to too great a distance, and also serves as means to maintain the band 8 at the upper end of the pipe 2 by engaging with a hook 11 carried by the pipe 2, when it is not desired to use the band for securing a bag to the pipe. lfdesired, a handle 12 may be secured to the band 8 to readily move the band to lits various positions on the pipe.

The device may be supported in any suitable manner. Une means of support is shown by a foldable tripod element, the legs of which are pivotally connected at 13. The

legs lll are shown provided at one end with reduced ortions to form upper nibs 15 and lower ni s 16, the lower nibs 16 servin as means to engage the supporting sur ace, such as the flooror ground. The upper nibs 15 are adapted to engage ears which are mounted on the chute. rllhree of these ears are shown, one of which 17a is secured .to the body of the chutelpassing the juncture of the pipes 3, another ear 17 b is on one pipe and still another ear 17, is on the other pipe, the ears 17h, 17 being onone side of the chute, while the ear 17 l is shown on the other side of the chute.

The ears are shown as angle plates with one member of each of the angle plates provided with an aperture through which the nibs 15 may be passed to permit the respective plates 17 to restagainst the shoulders 18 atthe ends of the legs. It will be understood, therefore, thatl the legs are detachable from the chute and capable of being folded into a compact space.

In operation, the mouth of the bag is passed through the flared end 3 of the pipe :2, the ring S is then brought down over the bag and spread out at the flared mouth, to frictionally engage the bag. 'hen the bag shall have been filled, the control plate can be rotated to cutl off the supply of' material and the ring 8 may be lifted from engagement with the bag and retained out of its engagement by hooking the yoke 10 over the hook 11.

The device may be mounted in any desired manner from a threshing machine, or may besupported 0n a plurality of-legs l1, which may be detachabb7 secured to the device.

Having thus described m v invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a device of the class described, a chute having a terminal pipe, a resilient eucircling band positioned :Ereeljv around the pipe to frictionally engage a bag and retain it in position over the mouth of the pipe,

said band being provided with a `voke-shaped i supporting and stiff'ening member which is interposed as a part of the encircling band,

and a hook carried by the pipe to engage the yoke-shaped member to retain the band outl of operative position with relation to the mouth of the pipe.

2. In a device of the class described, a chute having a discharge pipe provided with a flared terminus, and a retaining band loosely mounted on the pipe above, and adapted t0 have binding engagement with, its flared terminus, said band heilig split at one portion and provided with a yokeshaped stifl'ening device to connect the ends of the band, said lvoke-sliaped pipes beingr positioned at right angles to the band so that the yoke will lie againstl the discharge pipe substantially in the plane of the band.

3. In a device of' the class described, a flared discharge pipe, a resilient band loosely mounted thereon above said flared portion, said band being split, and a stillening voke interposed between the ends, said band being designed to frictionallifv engage a material placed between it and the flared portion of the pipe.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK F. SUTER.

GEO. C. Ries. 

